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Elections and government efficiency
Dorn, Florian - 2021
pending question whether efficiency in the provision of public goods and services is affected by strategic behavior. I examine … how electoral cycles influence local government efficiency by using OLS fixed effects, event study, and instrumental … variable estimations in a large balanced panel of around 2,000 municipalities in the German state of Bavaria. Cost efficiency …
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On the effects of factor mobility on local infrastructure policy and rent-seeking
Lorz, Jens Oliver - 1998
level. As this paper shows, factor mobility and fiscal competition between local governments lead to increasing rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275509
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The power of parties
Fiva, Jon H.; Folke, Olle; Sørensen, Rune J. - 2013
As with the market for goods and services, democratic competition involves political parties offering their services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291659
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Tax projections in German states – manipulated by opportunistic incumbent parties?
Bischoff, Ivo; Gohout, Wolfgang - 2006
1992 - 2002 reveals a general upward bias in tax projections in election as well as non-election years. The degree of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296566
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Elections related cycles in publicly supplied goods in Albania
Kächelein, Holger; Lami, Endrit; Imami, Drini - 2010
The phenomena of manipulation of the economy by the incumbent for electoral purpose are called Political Business Cycles (PBC), introduced by Nordhaus (1975). Using policy control economic instruments, as fiscal and monetary instruments, government may manipulate the economy to gain electoral...
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Budget structure and reelection prospects: Empirical evidence from French local elections
Cassette, Aurélie; Farvaque, Etienne; Héricourt, Jérôme - 2009
This paper is a study of the influence of economic and political conditions on the results of incumbent parties' candidates in local elections in France. The large sample used covers 586 towns and two elections (2001 and 2008). It explicitly deals with the specificities induced by the tworound...
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Political fragmentation and projected tax revenues: evidence from Flemish municipalities
Goeminne, Stijn; Geys, Benny; Smolders, Carine - 2007
The level of revenues pocketed by a government during the fiscal year often deviates from that projected by this government in its budget. Despite a flourishing literature on, for example, the technical or procedural determinants of such forecast errors, little is yet known about how political...
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Lame but loyal ducks
Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015
This paper analyzes the consequences of an electoral reform introducing mayoral term limits at the municipal level in Portugal. Relying on a difference-in-difference methodology and a novel method that accounts for anticipatory effects of reforms, this study explores variation between and within...
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Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Blesse, Sebastian; Brender, Adi; … - 2015
This paper examines whether revenue decentralization and direct external financial supervision affect the incidence and strength of political budget cycles, using a panel of Israeli municipalities during the period 1999-2009. We find that high dependence on central government transfers - as...
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Political business cycles at the municipal level
Veiga, Linda; Veiga, Francisco - 2004
The political article tests for rational political business cycles models on an unexplored and large data set of Portuguese municipalities. This data allows for a clean test of the models due to its high level of detail on expenditure items, an exogenous fixed election schedule and the...
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